Poetry from the Waverley Novels and Other Works

This scholarly edition offers the first reliably identified collection of Walter Scott’s original poetry in the Waverley Novels, the letters and the Journal. Past editors of Scott found it hard to recognise what is and is not quotation; but thanks to modern databases the poems in this volume have been identified as almost certainly his own.
This collection demonstrates, again, Scott’s brilliant versatility in the handling of verse forms and his extraordinary range of voice. The poetry of the...